Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scowling and cursing, the captains of 130 big French fishing smacks put to sea at Douarnenez last week, every smack loaded to the gunwales with sardines...
...These sardines-more than 1,000,000 sardines-will never come back!" shouted the No. 1 smack captain. A few hours later the 1,000,000 little dead fish had been tossed into the sea as a supreme act of sardine sacrifice. Purpose : to force French sardine buyers, who had offered 5¼? per lb., to pay the fishermen's agreed price...
...borrowed. Up went Der Führers arm, too, and Dictator eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record the unruly lock of hair which normally hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen to have been neatly pomaded back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left arm around Herr Hitler in a half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath with a staff of high-collared experts. After ear-splitting national...
...been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke to Lindbergh--even though it does smack somewhat of a teapot tempest--will be loudly cheered by those unfortunate men who do not look as though they worshipped Pure American Motherhood and lived the Clean Life...
...whose names appeared on the list of registered guests: Billy Burke, Ellnor Bean, Betty Button, Alice Fair, Florence Fine, Grace Frank, Dorothy Golly, Cynthia Jump, Georgia Ann Inksetter, Charity Mason, Elizabeth Pettibone, Marion Romp, Minnie Phift, Betsy Ross, Mary Power, Sophie Tucker, Phoebe Weed, Jean Spooner, Letta Turtie, Ima Smack, Mae Weston, Margaret Will, Mary Wood, and Helen Wont. There are 856 girls registered as guests at the Carnival--now wouldn't the statisticians have a good time laying them...